Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

American College of Physicians, Amy Fiedler, Arizona, bioethics, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heart death, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, Medicine, MedPage Today, Nebraska, new york, normothermic regional perfusion with controlled donation after circulatory death, NRP-cDCD, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, science, University of California San Francisco
A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Source
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10 Days in the Holy Land – Plus Q&A

AFR, Apologetics, app, Bible, CIA, cross examined, cross examined official podcast, faith, Frank Turek, God, google play, Israel, iTunes, Jesus Christ, Podcast, Radio, Spotify, stitcher, truth, Weekly Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS What’s one way to know we can trust the Bible? Take a trip to Israel! Frank just returned from his first trip to the Holy Land since 2018 and shares the amazing sites his group visited with famous archaeologist, Eli Shukron. These incredible historical sites that confirm the Bible is true include the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Nazareth, Shechem, Jerusalem, and many others! Frank also answers several questions from listeners, including those on obeying the Ten Commandments in modern times, the history of America as a Christian nation, the Bible vs. the Qur’an, the test of Adam and Eve, and why Christianity is always true regardless…
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16 argumentos malos de los ateos y cómo responder a ellos

Apologética, Ateos, Cristiano, Cristo, Dios, Español, Jeremy, Responder argumentos
Por Jeremy Linn Con la llegada del Final Four de la NCAA a las ciudades gemelas este fin de semana, parece apropiado tener nuestro propio Torneo de la Locura de Marzo. En lugar de equipos universitarios, construimos un ranking con algunos de los “principales” malos argumentos ateos. A continuación enumeramos 16 de estos malos argumentos y enumeramos al menos un problema con el argumento de cada uno. Se podría decir mucho más sobre cada uno de estos argumentos, por lo que presentamos este artículo con el riesgo de parecer superficiales.  Sin embargo, el objetivo de este artículo no es dar una respuesta exhaustiva a cada uno de los argumentos, sino dar ideas para una respuesta inicial a los mismos. Para cada uno de los argumentos, damos un ejemplo de pregunta…
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How We Got Our Bible: The KJV Only Movement

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By Ryan Leasure This final post will consider the short-comings of the King James (KJV) Only Movement. Nothing New Under The Sun In many respects, the KJV Only Movement is hardly novel. People have been propping up certain Bible translations since the time of Jesus. One early translation that received this exalted status was the Septuagint (LXX). After the Jewish people went into exile, many remained outside of Israel, even after they were granted permission to return and rebuild. Over the course of centuries, the Jewish people no longer had a grasp on the Hebrew language. Therefore, to make the Old Testament accessible to more people, Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew text into Greek. This translation happened sometime between the third and second centuries BC. Legend has it that seventy-two…
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An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

Antonio Lazcano, biology, biomolecules, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Eugene Koonin, Evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), genetic information, George Whitesides, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, life, National Center for Biotechnology Information, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, origin of life, prebiotic Earth, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley
Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Source
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Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

antagonist, biochemistry, Canada, chemical reactants, early Earth, Evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, hero, Intelligent Design, materialists, microfossils, Miracle, Nobel Prize, Nuvvuagittuq belt, origin of life, Quebec, Scientific American
Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Source
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

American Biology Teacher, biology, Brian Miller, Cell Biology International, cell's, cellular machinery, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Frank Salisbury, genetic code, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, molecular machinery, molecular machines, origin of life, physicists, RNA, simplest cell
In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Source
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Theoretical Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology 

Big Bang, CERN, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, God Hypothesis, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Jim Hartle, Large Hadron Collider, mass-energy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum gravity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Hawking, universe
Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Source
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